RFK Jr: “We will create an honest, unbiased, gold-standard science at HHS, accountable to the President, to Congress, and the American people.”
Here is the list of cuts not advertised or reviewed but instead pieced together by us from leaks. The programs in bold (most) have ALREADY been cut.
Trump and MAGA want to destroy American science to force US universities under the authoritarian thumb.
Good that some people are now speaking out. Don’t be afraid to be political, scientists. Science is political.
Everything may change, but it’s not done yet.
Scientists can still bend the arc of history. But “keeping our heads down” isn’t going to work. It would be good if universities spoke out now. That means you, college presidents. Don’t be Columbia. Come out swinging.
If you wonder how countries slip into dictatorship, it’s like this.
Amidst another flurry of news, an official adds at the end that Trump has signed an Executive Order saying that “only the President or Attorney General can speak for the US…as to what the law is.”
What?!
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My advisor, @profgabriele.com , pointed out that this tweet is more or less the perfect summation of what my dissertation is getting it. The terminally online, hateful and irony poisoned language-game of 4-Chan has become the language of politics in the most blatant and obvious way possible.
Just another reminder that the system is working exactly as it was incrementally designed and implemented, which is just to say - for the profiteering elites and not the people.
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Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
More bluntly: we got into this business to tell the truth to the very best of our ability. Remaining silent in the face of mis- and disinformation is a betrayal of our purpose.
The story of Galileo is one of our founding stories for a damned good reason.
Garrett Graff is a former editor of Politico. Take note, scientists 🧪, he is deeply informed about politics.
“American institutions [including science institutions] continue to **underreact**” to what is happening.
Keeping our heads down won’t work. 1/
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HHS and USDA: Dumfrey and Deever Tweed.
To my knowledge, there hasn't been any legal pushback against the executive order "Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling." Which means if/when McMahon is confirmed, her one job before the Dept of Ed shutdown will likely be to punish educators and cut federal funding for schools that... 1/🧵
Elon Musk re-shared a tweet containing Judge John McConnell Jr.’s daughter’s job and financial records on X after the judge ruled against DOGE.
RFK just released his plan for HHS.
He claims he will “eliminate conflicts of interest that skew outcomes and perpetuate distrust.”
Hypocrisy. RFK profits from spreading disinformation about vaccines and suing vaccine makers, which creates distrust in science and kills people.
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Was so excited to get an email from a CDC co-author this morning, only to realize... I couldn't actually access it? My attempt to respond also was a dead-end: the message literally couldn't send.
As a science advocate, something I hear a lot is that people think government would be better if there were more scientists and physicians elected to Congress. Senator Bill Cassidy's cowardice in voting for RFK Jr, show us that expertise is useless if you have no morals.
